My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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